MEMBERS and guests of the Myall Park Croquet Club held yet another successful Biggest Morning Tea at their beautiful home base on Monday 4 May.
This was the 16th year of the local event, which was again augmented by significant business support.
“So many local businesses have been wonderful, donating hundreds of dollars’ worth of prizes, which we raffled off in the lead-up to the day to raise over $1200 this year,” organiser Ella Sansom told News Of The Area.
“The money raised will be sent to Hunter Medical Research Institute for the fifth year, where we know it will go to helping people with a wide range of medical issues.”
Over the past six years, the Myall Park Croquet Club has raised a running total of $5600 for HMRI.
“Sharon Barwick, Fran Henderson, and Kay Webb have been on board for 16 years, with Marlene Feltis joining the team more recently.”
After another hot summer of mallet swinging and hoop aiming, 30 people attended the Biggest Morning Tea, including several guests from other clubs in town.
Everyone enjoyed delicious home-made cakes and sandwiches on what was to be one of the last few blue-sky days before a fortnight of on again, off again rain.
A few dedicated mallet-wielders hit the green to practice, their aim sometimes true, and sometimes way off, with many a red and yellow ball placed with the long-game in mind.
The green itself has rarely looked better, with the local irrigation issues presumably fixed, and the grass short, fast, and verdant.
Recent HMRI activity has included field studies of the use of regular at-home nasal swabs to spot infections and asymptomatic carriers, eventually allowing much faster responses to outbreaks of disease, including future pandemics.
HMRI is also celebrating the 30-year milestone of the nation’s longest-running women’s health study, the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health (ALSWH).
It was launched in April 1996 with the ambitious objective of gathering scientific data, investigating all aspects of women’s health and wellbeing, and driving major health policies – as well as promoting collaboration between the universities of Queensland and Newcastle.
By Thomas O’KEEFE
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